Torsten Bell

Tories tout £47bn in spending cuts in bid to reclaim fiscal reputation Shadow chancellor says he will target welfare spending, overseas aid budget and civil service staffing to find savings

The Tory plan is to… undo what the Tories did in government:
“reducing civil service headcount back to 2016 levels… and saving money spent on housing asylum seekers in hotels, which began under the last Tory government.” www.ft.com/content/974e...

Meanwhile Nigel Farage:
- has talked about taking up a rifle/knife
- courted Elon Musk who is calling for violence on our streets
- lionised someone who admitted to inciting racial hatred and violence
- refused to condemn violent riots last summer

This is a total lie repeatedly unchallenged on media

The only reference to “arms” in the PM’s speech?

“the wind fARMs of South Wales.”

Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay £122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - part of a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.

We won’t forget the Tory Covid scandals.
We are getting taxpayers’ money back.
We are putting it where it belongs: in our schools, our NHS and our communities.
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Who’s actually been inciting violence on Britain’s streets? The same man who Farage chased for £s: Elon Musk

@torstenbell.bsky.social speaks at our Guarantee Our Essentials Reception with @trusselluk.bsky.social and @jrf-uk.bsky.social

Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform The party leader will claim today that Keir Starmer’s labelling of his migrant plan as ‘racist’ has endangered the safety of his candidates and activists

Snowflake. Farage doesn’t like to be held to account for his racist policies, his divisive rhetoric and his grifter politics - well bad luck because there is lots more to come www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Nigel Farage of course seems to have been very happy to do his pro-Russian propaganda for free

Ex-Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Anyone surprised? “Former Welsh leader of Reform has pleaded guilty to bribery charges”. Such a patriot he took money to talk pro-Russian propaganda www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

👇 We've just won something massive.

After months of campaigning, we've secured £20m of long-term funding for Swansea through UK Gov’s Pride in Place fund.

Whether regenerating our city centre or boosting our high streets, how it's spent is up to us. Come and get involved.

Such naked denials of the Palestinian people’s right to statehood show why the UK and several allies’ recognition of a Palestinian state is so important - force has slowed but it cannot be allowed to permanently deny a path to a two state solution

From tomorrow, schools in Swansea West can book a free guided tour of Parliament with:

✅ A professional tour guide
✅ A workshop at Parliament's Education Centre
✅ 85% off travel costs for a coach or bus (up to £2,400)

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Yes thousands turned out - which is far more than I’d like - but that is dwarfed by the millions that understand real patriotism means loving your country as it actually is, not hating its diversity or trying to exploit its challenges. That’s what our flags actually represent

Didn’t make it along today? Email torsten.bell.mp@parliament.uk if there is anything I can help with

Thanks to everyone who turned up to the latest of my regular coffee mornings today. It was great to speak to so many from the local community, including councillor Fiona Gordon and Police and Community Support Officers.

…out in Manselton today, sorting casework (plus admiring some top wild flowers by the surgery).

We are out talking to residents year round - it’ll never be true you just see me and the @swanseawestclp.bsky.social team come election time. Sketty door-knocking last night and…

These Tory MPs are going to be furious when they find out who was in power when employment in offshore oil and gas HALVED between 2014 and 2023. The Conservatives are doubling down on being a cheap Reform tribute act rather than a serious party

Lunch views

Morning

Utter garbage. She was a prisoner, nothing political about it. Reasonable people can disagree on any given sentence but the facts are clear:
- she incited serious violence
- PM did exactly nothing
- she went to jail because of what SHE did: committing a crime + pleading guilty

And Nigel Farage isn’t going to get away with pretending he has an answer by calling for a repeat of the Tory chaos, with added performative cruelty about returning people to Afghanistan on top.

The people that created this problem are not going to get away with rewriting history.

There’s a reason today’s would be Tory populist plonkers were boasting back then about opening asylum hotel after asylum hotel

So Nigel Farage’s ‘new’ plan is in fact… Rishi Sunak’s old plan - which was exactly what caused the explosion in use of asylum hotels in the first place.

I'm a big fan of real ale - and there are more than 100 on offer at the 35th Swansea Bay Beer and Cider Festival. 🍻

Great to stop by Brangwyn Hall for a pint of Three Cliffs Gold (light beer not real ale, I know).

Cheers.

Not everyone will get results they're happy with, but remember that support is always available.

You can speak to someone at Mind by calling 0300 123 3393 or look online: www.mind.org.uk/for-young-pe...

Huge congratulations to everyone receiving their GCSE results today in Swansea.

Today is an important opportunity to reflect on everything achieved in your education so far.

Whether your next step is A-Levels or an apprenticeship, I hope you make the right choice for you.

Pensions:
- there to ensure more people have a secure retirement
- not there to support tax planning

We've got to be a country that builds things again.